My dad in the garden

I finally got to see the fabulous lemons that @stephenfry.bsky.social chose for Gilded Birds. Stunning Zorboran show @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social gildedbirds.com/2024/04/22/s...

Update! The leaves on the oak tree unfurled this week! @professorshaw.bsky.social @hellokerry.bsky.social

Beep is checking in to make sure you aren’t doom scrolling 🐥🫵

- The Guira cuckoo (Guira guira) is a medium-sized, gregarious bird in the cuckoo family Cuculidae. - Photo courtesy of Herman Tolosa, Brazil

While we’re all anxiously waiting… Please enjoy a relaxing massage.

I could have spent an eternity talking to the wonderful @peteryork.bsky.social gildedbirds.com/2026/04/06/p...

My dad has started a series of drawings recently and one of them just went viral on social media. Never give up. He's 91 and finally getting some recognition. Here's his Gilded Birds interview based on a lifetime of insights into how and why we create art. gildedbirds.com/2026/03/29/r...

I sent my dad a little pear tree and he's sending me updates of how it's doing. Who needs iPhones pictures? @professorshaw.bsky.social

The Pears Foundation new report on Countering Online Conspiracies in Schools is well worth a read. It makes it very clear schools have become a frontline in the fight against conspiracy theories, and need serious support. counteringconspiracies.publicfirst.co.uk/Commission_i...

My 91 year old dad's latest drawing of the garden. I'm so proud.

A blackbird amongst the cherry blossom

Pussy Willow

Oak twigs

Wriggly hazel twigs

Snowdrops

NEW: Dear Washington Post journalists, I’ve written this for you. Last year @theguardian.com gave away our news title & binned 100+ journalists. It sucked! But we fought back & you can too. First a strike, then a new masthead @thenerve.news Fuck Bezos. There is another way 👊👊👊 1/

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

4/ We told the story. The investigative podcast Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring hosted by @peterjukes.bsky.social, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Sergei Cristo made the threat of foreign interference tangible. 🎧 Listen back here: the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg...

A fun discussion with @professorshaw.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

No. Binx and I have not recently visited Paris. Why would you ask us a silly question like that?

Breaking: EX-MPs TAKE CASE AGAINST UK GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE TO INVESTIGATE FOREIGN INTERFERENCE TO EUROPEAN “SUPREME COURT” THREE FORMER MPs; Caroline Lucas, Alyn Smith and Ben Bradshaw - claim the UK government is failing in its duty 2 protect elections from foreign interference

‘WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?’ TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social investigates the opaque workings of Blair’s institute… #TheNerve #TheNerveNews #TonyBlair #CaroleCadwalladr

Judgment in the #RussiaReport case is now out:

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

Purrotest

"69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin" www.wsj.com/opinion/most...

On the German press baron who "calculated that by hollowing out the political center, political consensus would become impossible and the democratic system would collapse" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Thrilled to photograph this little Treecreeper on a moss-covered tree trunk at Swell Wood yesterday! 😀😍🐦 #Birds 🪶 All my links here; linktr.ee/carlbovis

Keir Starmer announces a techutopian AI plan that reads like it was generated by ChatGPT. Shockingly naive & desperate capture of UK govt by corporate interests www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If we weren't at such a weird moment in history, the collapse of Assad's regime would be widely understood as a huge success for the Biden administration, which pursued sanctions on Russia and Iran as well as Syria, armed Ukraine and thus weakened Russia, and supported Syrian democrats and activists

Mikhail Zygar explains why Trump's victory is being celebrated in Moscow. Not just because of a change in Ukraine policy, but because "to many in the Kremlin, a Trump presidency might bring about the collapse of the American state" www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...

Really important service journalism here from @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social on how to protect yourself and your sources before Trump's new regime takes control.... www.wired.com/story/the-wi...